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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hunter
    Latest Model:Hunter FR.74S
    Last Military Serial:503 RSiAF
    Construction Number:S4/U/3313
    Last Civil Registration:VH-XVD
    Compressed ID:Hawker Hunter FR.74S sn 503 RSiAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Miltek Aviation Pty Ltd, Carrum Downs, VIC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Hunter F.6.

    From 10 January 1957 to 1970

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XF437.

    Converted to a Hunter FGA.9.
    One of some 128 F6 Hunters upgraded in the early 1960s to a ground attack capable FGA.9 with a more powerful Avon 207 jet engine of ~10,500lbs, plus new wing carrying hard points to hang rockets or bombs.

    15 July 1969

    To Historical Aircraft Restoration Society Inc, Albion Park Rail, NSW with new c/r VH-FRH.

    6 April 1970

    To Hawker Siddeley Aviation with new c/r G-9-324.

    1970

    Converted to a Hunter FR.74S.
    Refurbished by Hawker as a photo reconnaissance capable FR-74S with the gun radar replaced by cameras.

    24 June 1971

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Republic of Singapore with s/n 503.

    From 1971 to 1992

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Republic of Singapore with s/n 503.

    28 May 1996

    To Geoffrey Moesker, Forest Lake, QLD with new c/r VH-FRH.

    September 1998

    To Geoff Moesker with new c/r VH-FRA.

    21 May 2006

    To Geoffrey Moesker, Warner, QLD with new c/r VH-FRH.

    14 December 2009

    To Historical Aircraft Restoration Society Inc, Albion Park Rail, NSW keeping c/r VH-FRH.

    Based at Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (H. A. R. S.), Wollongong Airport, Wollongong, New South Wales.
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    15 August 2015


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 2015 photo during a visit to Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (H. A. R. S.), Wollongong Airport, Wollongong, New South Wales.

    8 March 2017

    To Gregory Owen Ackman, Camden, NSW keeping c/r VH-FRH.

    16 May 2022

    To Miltek Aviation Pty Ltd, Carrum Downs, VIC keeping c/r VH-FRH.

    10 June 2022

    To unknown owner with c/r VH-XVD.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Hawker Hunter In UK and Foreign Servce 1951-2007 by David J. Griffin
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Australian Government, Civil Aviation Safety Authority
    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Terry Fletcher
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